The Launcher is 9 megabytes. 14 GB is what the launcher will download once you run it (IE the full game client) if you don't have STO installed.

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STO is installed but it's reporting 14GB on the patch. Doesn't matter though as it failed after downloading for 24 hours. Nobody has time for this. What in the hell has Cryptic/PWE done with the launcher?

Personally I'd say the only ships you should fly in STO are escorts. I used to fly cruisers and even managed to get good damage out of them, but after PvPing for I realised that no matter how good the build is, a cruiser will always be a distant second to an escort.

Sadly when you build a cruiser in such a way that it gets close to escort damage, it becomes quite squishy in comparison to one.

I've now dropped the cruiser on all my alts and now solely fly escorts (the tankier ones like the patrol escort, heavy escort carrier, the Breen ship and the temporal destroyer).

Don't laugh. It's an Excelsior. It's just weaker than my earlier ship. I really bought it for asthetics rather than playability, since I always liked the Excelsior. Oh, well, I may just go back to my previous ship and chalk it up to experience. Better to waste fake money on this than real money on something important.

The excelsior is the best DPS cruiser outside of lockbox ships, and if you build it right, you can melt other ships almost as fast as an escort.
You may want to look into single cannon builds for this.

For example 4 single Antiproton cannons in the front, 4 antiproton turrets in the rear for a pure energy build.
If you don't use orpedos, you will have anough tactical powers for tactical team, 2x rapid fire or one rapid fire and attack pattern omega.

Use DEM 3 for high shield penetration.
The rest of the engineering powers should go to survivability as well as science powers.

4 Million is not much.
In that case you may be best served to copy your character to the Tribble server buy the best gear possible for what you are trying to do, and if that doesn't work out, scrap it, recopy the toon and start over.
respec should be the last thing you do before committing to a build.
I flew weeks with my torpedo armitage before I was comfortable enough with it to put all my weight into torpedos and related skills.

Is the MK X borg engine as fast in sector space as the mk xi or xii? Or at least as fast as the old one? I could see myself actually getting the marks and spending the dil for that, if the above are true.

One's going to be a tactical carrier, which probably means 7-8 weapon slots and a Cmdr Tactical boff station. Add 2 hanger slots, consoles to buff group and fighter damage... Its going to be the highest dps ships in the game. That is, if you can turn the ship.

My engineer's eyeing the Adak'Ukan doff. +300% Threat Generation with AP Delta is going to be so uber.